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Diabetes Diet
For over a thousand years diabetes was recognized as a deadly disease that caused those afflicted to waste away and die a painful death, but it took until the 7th century BC for the development of the disease to be linked to sugar. Doctors in ancient India were the first to make the connection, diagnosing the disease… -
Unlocking the Happiness Built into Us
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ―Confucius We humans make things so complicated. Take the subject of happiness, which can be as elusive as it is desirable. According to an online Harris Poll of 2,345 U.S. adults, only one in three Americans say they’re ‘very happy’, as has been the… -
Sunscreen: The SPF Myth
The sunscreen business is a 1.3-billion-dollar business fueled by dermatologic dogma and consumer concerns about the dangers of the sun. According to the market research group Datamonitor Consumer, profits are expected to increase by 6.5 percent by 2017. Much of that growth can be attributed to the development of high… -
Ayurvedic Medicine, Amla & Skin
Ayurvedic medicine, a form of traditional Indian healing, first popularized by Deepak Chopra in the 1980’s in the book Quantum Healing, has become (nearly) mainstream, but there was a time, in our part of the world, when the 7000-year old science was unknown. I first learned of it in pharmacy school from an Ayurveda…
